Just How Bizarre is KENAN -- Really???

OK, this is what came up when I goggled "bizarre kenan". Kenan is a fairly common Arab first name, so I doubt I'm TOO closely related to this one. Now, here's a shot of the newly expanded "family stadium" which also came up just after the provocative book:

In Alvaretta Kenan Register's original 1967 edition of THE KENAN FAMILY and Some Allied Families (which contains FAR more Fun-Facts than the 1999 version which was updated by Marie DeLamar), it is quite simply stated that the name Kenan is found in the Bible, fourth in line from Adam to Noah, in First Chronicles, 1st Chapter, 1st Verse. Actually, it's 2nd Verse -- but then Kenans are competive and like symetry. 1, 1, 1 sounds so much better than 1, 1, 2.

The Bible geneology begins:

Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan (sometimes spelled "Cainan")
Mahalalel
Jared
(etc.)

According to Charles Filmore's METAPHYSICAL BIBLE DICTIONARY (1995) http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Dictionary-Charles-Fillmore-Reference/dp/0871590670 :

Cainan (more properly Kenan), cå-i'nan (Heb.)--possessor; acquisitor; centralizer; one who fixes and establishes his center; acquisition. Son of Enosh. He is named fourth in descent from Adam (Gen. 5:9). He is the same person as Cainan (Luke 3:37).

Enosh (meaning mortal man, mutable being, corporeal man) refers to the outer or body consciousness, in its limited, material, corruptible concept of the organism: the unreality of the material is made evident by the higher, more spiritual thought (Seth) that has begun its work in the consciousness, to the end that it may be replaced by the spiritual concept and expression. Kenan, son of Enosh (meaning self-centered one, fixed, ownership, general usurpation, welding), signifies the seemingly established materiality of consciousness and organism. But the higher, more spiritual thought, found in Seth, is working, and the man, though seemingly established in materiality, is reaching out of the lesser self (possession invading space) and upward toward something more powerful to uplift, enlighten, heal, renew, and restore than is to be found in the material. Thus Kenan brings forth Mahalalel, meaning praise of God.

So, the way I have always interpreted this (since about 1987 when I first bought Filmore's book), was that KENAN represented material abundance taken to the extreme -- but guided by Spirit, so not selfishly or foolishly. Good Stewardship might be an appropriate term for KENAN relationship to the material.

I always liked the idea of Kenan bringing forth Mahalalel, but since in the Bible, Mahalalel is a separate individual, I've always assumed Kenan had to fall in the process. It will be interesting to see what happens in the days coming up.

But researching a little further -- into Hebrew references regarding the meaning of Mahalalel, I found that "halal" is a verb that can mean one of three things:

1. To shine (like a heavenly body)
2. To praise or boast
3. To be insane, or rather irrational

>>> FINALLY: Proof Positive that KENAN drives people CraZy (which it does)!!!

See: http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Mahalalel.html .

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>>> THIS JUST IN 4:09 PM: OCCUPY WILMINGTON protesters packed up their camp on City Hall's lawn after the notoriously corrupt and lying Wilmington Police (some, not all) handed them a hand-written paper showing an ordinance that prohibited their encampment. They did NOT insist on seeing a REAL, PUBLISHED copy of the ordinance, which might or might not have just been passed to oust the group.

Once my sinus infection clears, I might grab "Spaghetti Joey" and his tent and camp there myself (after duct-taping his mouth -- private joke). I sure miss the fun BALLSY TIMES we all had in the late 60s and early 70s practicing CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE for a GOOD CAUSE!!! Today's youth are spoiled and afraid of the cops who (at least in Wilmington) are less violent than they were back then.

As readers of this blog (and anyone following the various OCCUPY movements' activities) knows, the biggest advertiser on The Daily Koz online (which informs people where to go to find local info on the movement) is The Breakers hotel http://www.thebreakers.com/ in Palm Beach -- WHOLLY OWNED personally by my distant Kenan relatives (who also control Bank of America and other choice businesses).

Kenans. We be Crazy!!!

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